Chicago outlines plan to slash greenhouse gases

"The mayor of Chicago announced a plan Thursday to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases as part of an effort to become one of the greenest cities in the United States. The plan calls for greenhouses to be cut to three-fourths of 1990 levels by 2020 and to...

Biofuels From Industrial/Domestic Wastewater

Biofuels turned from being the solution of world’s rising carbon emissions to the cause of a global food crisis which seems to be worsening day by day. Record demand and subsidies amounting for billions of dollars made the farmers dump the traditional food crops and...

India-Pakistan Partition through Grandma's eyes

 Grandma talks abouts the life before India-Pakistan Partition  After their marriage on July 10, 1947, my grandparents along with their families were forced to leave their hometowns & move to India. They buried most of their money & jewelry to hide it...

Hurray! Celebrating 10 years of blogging

It has been ten years since the revolution of the Blogs started. But the blogosphere never seemed that old, always bubbling with the newest & the most interesting of the ideas. Although blogs (as we know them) are a decade old but still Microsoft Word doesn’t...

Race for 'New Energy': US, Russia go North Pole, China off to the Moon

The thirst of energy has made the ‘biggies’ to go to the ends of the world & out of it. Russia has put claims over the North Pole & its unexplored natural reserves, so has Canada which recently sent a ship to the North Pole to make its presence felt. On...